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Optical anomalies in crystals are puzzles that collectively constituted the greatest unsolved problems in crystallography in the 19th Century. The most common anomaly is a discrepancy between a crystal’s symmetry as determined by its shape or by X-ray analysis, and that determined by monitoring the polarization state of traversing light. These discrepancies were perceived as a great impediment to the development of the sciences of crystals on the basis of Curie’s Symmetry Principle, the grand organizing idea in the physical sciences to emerge in the latter half of the 19th Century. Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry: 1. the piezo-optic effect, and 2. the kinetic ordering of atoms. The text then tackles complex, inhomogeneous crystals, and the complex optical properties resulting from the superposition of anomalies having various etiologies. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors’ laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses. This is an invaluable text for crystallographers, mineralogists, and petrologists interested in the growth of minerals and synthetic crystals, and their optical properties. It is also ideally suited to students of optical mineralogy, professional scientists and engineers as well as historians of science.

Crystal optics. --- Inhomogeneous materials. --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Materials --- Matter --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Crystallography --- Physical optics --- Optical properties

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This book collects chapters on different theoretical and experimental aspects of photonics crystals for Nanophotonics applications. It is divided in two parts - a theoretical section and an experimental and applicative section. The first part includes chapters developing several numerical methods for analysis and design of photonic crystal devices, such as 2D ring resonators for filters, single and coupled nanobeam cavities, birefringence in photonic crystal cavities, threshold analysis in photonic crystal lasers, gap solitons in photonic crystals, novel photonic atolls, dynamic characteristics of photonic crystal filters. The second part focuses on some aspects of photonic crystals fabrication and relevant applications, such as nitrogen defect technology in diamond, silicon nitride free standing membranes, photonic crystals structures in silicon, photonic crystals for optical sensing.

Crystal optics. --- Optoelectronics. --- Photonic crystals. --- Bandgap structures, Photonic --- Photonic bandgap structures --- Crystal lattices --- Electronics --- Photonics --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Crystallography --- Physical optics --- Optical properties --- Laser physics

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Physical optics --- Crystallography --- Crystal optics --- Crystal optics. --- Crystallography. --- Physical optics. --- crystal optics --- biooptics --- correlation optics --- singular optics --- Leptology --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Optics, Physical --- Optical properties --- Physical sciences --- Mineralogy --- Optics

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Optical biomimetics, the study of natural systems to inspire novel solutions to problems in optical technologies, has attracted growing interest. Optical biomimetics reviews key research in this area, focusing on the techniques and approaches used to characterise and mimic naturally occurring optical effects.Beginning with an overview of natural photonic structures, Optical biomimetics goes on to discuss optical applications of biomolecules, such as retinylidene and bacteriorhodopsin, polarisation effects in natural photonic structures and their applications, and biomimetic nanostructu

Crystal optics. --- Nonlinear optics. --- Optical fibers -- Microstructure. --- Photonic crystals. --- Photonic crystals --- Crystal optics --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical fibers --- Biomimetics --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Materials Science --- Microstructure --- Biotechnology --- Biomimetics. --- Microstructure. --- Biomimicry --- Chemicals --- Light guides (Optical fibers) --- Fiber optics --- Fibers --- Optical materials --- Optical wave guides --- Optics, Nonlinear --- Optics --- Lasers --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Crystallography --- Physical optics --- Bandgap structures, Photonic --- Photonic bandgap structures --- Crystal lattices --- Optical properties

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Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 2: Materials is the second of three volumes within the Springer Series in Optical Sciences. The book gives a comprehensive review of the most important photorefractive materials and discusses the physical properties of organic and inorganic crystals as well as poled polymers. In this volume, photorefractive effects have been investigated at wavelengths covering the UV, visible and near infrared. Researchers in the field and graduate students of solid-state physics and engineering will gain a thorough understanding of the properties of materials in photorefractive applications. The other two volumes are: Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 1: Basic Effects. Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 3: Applications.

Crystal optics. --- Photorefractive materials. --- Materials, Photorefractive --- Electrooptics --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Crystallography --- Physical optics --- Materials --- Optical properties --- Optical materials. --- Mechanics, applied. --- Applied and Technical Physics. --- Optical and Electronic Materials. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Condensed Matter Physics. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Optics --- Condensed matter. --- Electrodynamics. --- Laser physics. --- Dynamics --- Condensed materials --- Condensed media --- Condensed phase --- Materials, Condensed --- Media, Condensed --- Phase, Condensed --- Liquids --- Matter --- Solids